## CENTRAL STATISTICAL ADMINISTRATION

The resolutions of the latest Congress of Soviets unconditionally obligate the Central Stat. Admin. to undertake statistical study of the work of our Soviet institutions, the number of employees, etc.

7.

Selection, for study, of a small number of typical enterprises (factories, state farms) and institutions: (a) the best — model ones; (b) average; and (c) the worst.

Cut all the rest, except these 7 sections.

I request that you communicate to me your conclusion both on the substance and on the timeline for working out the program of work.

Chairman Lenin.

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## NOTE TO SECRETARIES.

Fotieva or Glasser.

19/VIII [1921]

I request that you send back the original, having made 4 copies and return it to me together with a copy of my letter to Popov from 16(?)/VIII.¹

Lenin.

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## LETTERS AND NOTES TO P. I. POPOV.

### I

8332

August 20 [1921]

Comrade Popov,

I cannot accept your resignation.

My directives, as you of course know, may be appealed by you, but an appeal does not suspend the necessity of their execution. I request that you send me a brief list of the measures you are undertaking, in accordance with my directives, with an indication of deadlines (of course, approximately, from — to).

Chairman SNK V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

P.S. Medical leave you can and should of course take in order to recover. But then (write to me separately or), if you wish to expedite, write to Fotieva, she will read it to me by telephone (concerning the leave and the "deputy"). It is necessary to formally appoint a "deputy" temporarily.

P.P.S. I will add that your letter is too polemical. I am not against polemic, but it must be marked off separately. You argue against things I did not say and do not think. You argue as though I deny the usefulness of what has been done, etc. But I did not say this and do not think it.

On the measures you are undertaking, I request that you inform me by points of my letters from June 4 and August 16 (for example: "brief monthly summaries on industry will be delivered from such-and-such a date, on food distribution from such-and-such a time, and so forth).

### II

8994

5. IX [1921]

Agreed. Remind me.¹

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### III

9254

Central Stat. Admin.

[October 4, 1921]

Comrade Popov!

Is it not possible to publish in your bulletin (or separately in 4 pages) for wide distribution the preliminary results of the population census of the RSFSR in comparison with pre-war Russia?

(The material you sent me on a slip of paper).

For reference purposes this is always necessary, especially if one were to add space and the number of guberniyas and uyezds.

With comradely greetings, Lenin.

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### IV

8312

[October 17, 1921]

Comrade Popov,

I have received the statistical tables of population by administrative divisions of the RSFSR.

1) I request that you clarify in print (it is not stated, for example, that according to the census of August 28, 1920).

2) Autonomous areas in the republic (the Karelian Labor Commune, the Bashkir, Tatar, etc.) separate from the list of guberniyas and place separately, coordinating (in case of doubt) with the NKVD and the Narkoмyust.

3) In the summary bring together the major divisions, repeating them approximately as follows: European Russia, the RSFSR proper; autonomous republics: the Ukrainian SSR, Turkestan, the Caucasian republic, the Far Eastern, etc.

4) Check once more whether the same territories were taken for 1914 and 1897, for example, the Bashkir republic:
1920     1,268,132
1914     357,700 (7? obvious error)

5) Add a brief text (in agreement with the NKVD pamphlet) on the changes (in the composition of uyezds and volosts) [in] guberniyas and areas.

Chairman V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

P.S. It would be desirable to add also: states that separated from the RSFSR, which were part of the former Russian Empire, area, population of 1897 and 1914 (if available), if this is not a burden.

Chairman V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

P.P.S. Is it not also possible to add the number of uyezds, volosts, cities, villages (similar to the yearbook of 1914-1915).

Chairman V. Ulyanov (Lenin).